Good morning, all! Do you remember a couple of weeks ago when I was talking about how I was creating a photo book using Picaboo so that I could attempt to catch up on documenting the million and one digital photos sitting on my hard drive?

Welllllll....my Picaboo book arrived over the weekend and I am in love! And so are the kiddos. The minute they saw that thing they greedily snatched it up and devoured every page of it. I find that my kids love looking through their scrapbooks and photo books more than just about any other book we have.

The finished copy of my book

I chose to make a 12x12 book, and I love the bigger pages. The photos are beautiful...the color is vibrant and the images are crisp. I also love the heavy weight pages (1oo lb. archival quality!) and the fact that it is hardbound. Now I'm thinking I better order one for every kiddo in this house...and probably for both sets of grandparents as well.

On these pages I chose just to use photos and one title.

Picaboo also gives you the option of journaling, which I used on this page about the Hubby's accident.

And today, you're in luck because the good people at Picaboo are offering one reader of the Shabby Nest a $50 gift certificate to use on their site. Good toward your own photo book or any of the other products they have to offer!

You know the drill, simply leave me a comment on this post telling me why you need this giftcard!

You may Tweet, Facebook or blog about this giveaway for extra entries, but you must leave an additional comment for each thing that you do in order for the entry to be valid.

Giveaway open until Wednesday, May 4, 2011 at 11:59 PM MST.

This is a sponsored post, but the opinions I've expressed here are solely my own and represent my honest viewpoint.

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Oh boy, could I use this gift certificate! We just attended my dear father-in-law's 80th birthday party. I have lots of photos I need to get into some sort of album as my gift to him. I am sort of overwhelmed and not sure how to start. This would help!

I just took an online course, Wading In over the winter which was about taking self portraits and learning to see yourself in a new light. I love the work I did for that class-I learned so much and it changed my perspective of how I see myself. It was pretty powerful. I've been wanting to have a book made of the images I shot and this would be far and away the most beautiful way to showcase the collection of images I produced.

Keeping my fingers crossed and twittering your giveaway!

You can see my photos on my Flickr, which is under tatterededge. The set is called Wading In.:)

I need this Peekaboo coupon just because I just made a book with shutterfly and it was absolutely horrible. Shutterfly was not used friendly and I coudnt figure out how to put my photos in order (it changed the order to what ever they wanted). I could not use the size font I wanted.. blah blah blah. I need Peekaboo so that I can get a nice book made.

I can't say I NeEd this.....but I would LoVe to have this to make a book for my mom. She has grand kiddo's in far away places. If we could all add our pictures, she could have a cool book with all of her grand "babies"

I would love to create a book using my parents old, black and white wedding photos. Right now the originals are in an ugly photo album. It would be a fabulous anniversary gift to scan those photos and create a beautiful book for them.

Oh! I heart this! I was just putting together a pale alternative to this for my mom. She's going in for a hip replacement and with her Alzheimers we are trying to surround her with photos while she gets re-oriented coming out of the drugs.

This would be a well needed gift certificate!! I have so many pictures that I need to put into one place and paper scrapbooking just seems like it's impossible to do! I'd love to be able to put together our latest photos to share with granparents that live far away!

So, I did a book for my first sons first two years and haven't started to think about doing one for my second son. I do not want him to feel cheated as a second child someday. This GC would help get my butt in gear.

I'd love to win this. Every picture of my daughter is still on my computer. My son, the oldest, has so many albums, but after she arrived, time became scarce. This would be such a nice way to organize them. She asked me the other day what she looked like when she was a baby. Guilt.

I love these books! I am a mom who has NEVER kept a baby book for my kids, but use our family blog to record milestones and photos... I'd love the chance to put together a Picaboo book as a "real" keepsake!

I would love to make a book or two of all of the journeys my husband and I get to experience. My hubby is military and we have lived in 4 different states in the last 3 years...that makes for a lot of journeys. :)

I need this gift certificate for many reasons. The number one reason being I have 3 children and out of them only 1 has a baby scrapbook. This certificate would allow me to the pics on my computer and create books for my other 2.

I need a gift card because I love photo books and have tons of pictures for my baby boy that I need to put in a book. And I'm about to have my second son in about a month and would love to have it for him too. :-)katie

Would love this gift card to showcase all the pictures of my two beautiful girls that I never get a chance to show anybody because I can't ever find time to get pictures printed! Whew...that's a good reason, isn't it?Thanks,Desiree

i really need this gift card because our tennis team is making a book for the coach and i want to get one for the assistant coach too. i love picaboo! They are the best...totally customizable and a really great quality product. They make great teacher, coach, and thank you gifts. i'm a fan!

oh, Me! Me! Me! I would love this gift card. I used to scrapbook our family's adventures, but I didn't love doing it and it was so time consuming. This year I have planned on converting over to online books, but I don't know which source to go with! I'd love to try these guys out with a free gift card. :)

I need this because I am the laziest scrapbooker ever, except when it comes to buying scrapbook stuff. My husband says that I will have the world's largest scrapbook if I ever get around to using all of it. :)

Ohh I soooo need this!! I started scrapbooking many years ago and I stopped as quickly as I started. Being a mother of 4 keeps me on the road....and I haven't quiet figured out how to multi-task driving and scrapbooking. Love this!! I def need to make one for my grandblessing... he loves BOOKS!!

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